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tricent

tricent noun: a li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).

Noun

tricent (plural tricents)

  1. A li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
    • The P’eng is so huge that no one knows how many thousands of tricents its back stretches. Rousing itself to flight, its wings are like clouds suspended in the sky.1994, Zhuangzi, trans. Victor Mair, Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu, page 3

Forms of tricent

pluraltricents

Origin of tricent

From tri- (“three”) + cent (“hundred”), as if from Latin trecentī passūs (“three hundred paces”), by analogy with the etymology of mile from Latin mīlle passūs (“mile; a thousand paces”).

Questions about tricent

What does tricent mean?
Tricent means a li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
What part of speech is tricent?
Tricent is a noun.
What is the plural of tricent?
The plural of tricent is tricents.

Words near tricent in the dictionary

  1. tricennals
  2. tricennia
  3. tricennial
  4. tricennium
  5. tricenniums
  6. tricent
  7. tricentenarian
  8. tricentenarians
  9. tricentenaries
  10. tricentenary
  11. tricentennial

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